Detachable horseshoe



(No Model.)

E. HUNZIKER.

DETAGHABLE HORSESHOE.

Patented June 9, 1885.

ATTORNEYS.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @rrrce.

EMIL HUNZIKER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

DETACHABLE HORSESHOE.

5PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,906, dated June 9, 1885.

Application filed August 14, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL HUNZIKER, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Detachable Horseshoe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relatesto that class of horseshoes having very heavy calks, and which are only temporarily secured on the ordinary shoes.

The object of my invention is to facilitate fastening and unfastening the heavy-calked shoes.

The invention consists in a heavily-calked' horseshoe having a lug on the inner edge of one shank and a cam-lever pivoted ona bracket-plate on the opposite shank, the shoe being placed against the ordinary shoe in such a manner that the lug rests against the inner edge of one shank of the fixed shoe and the cam-lever engages the other shank, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved horseshoe, showing it attached. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line a: m, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a plan view of the rear end of the upper shoe.

A flat horseshoe, A, of the usual construction, is secured to the hoof B in the usual manner by means of the nails, the heads of which are in the nail-groove C in the under side of the shoe.

The detachable shoe D is made of the same shape as the fixed shoe, and is provided along its inner edge with an upwardly-projecting flange, E, and at the front and rear'with the toe and heel calks F and G, respectively.

From the inner edge of one prong or shank of the shoe D a lug, H, projects inward and outward, the inwardly-projecting part projecting over the shoe being beveled to fit against the inner beveled edge of one shank of the shoe A.

From the inner edge of the opposite shank of the shoe D a bracket-plate, J, projects, on which a cam-lever, K, is pivoted, provided at its outer or free end with a prong, L, adapted to be sprung into a notch, M, in the upwardly-bent end M of the bracket-plate J. The inner edge of the cam-lever is also beveledto adapt it to engage the beveled inner edge of the shoe A.

When the shoes wear off, I place a layer of leather, N, between them, which leather is .held in place by pins 0, placed in aperturesin the top surface of the shoe D, and projecting through the leather and into the nail-groove O in the under side of the top shoe.

To fasten the shoe D, the cam-lever K is brought into the position shown in Fig. 2, and the shoe D is placed against the shoe A in such a manner that the inwardly-projecting part of the lug H laps over the inner beveled edge of the shoe A. The free end of the lever K is then swung toward the side of the shoe, to cause the cam part of the said lever to overlap the inner beveled edge of the other shank of the shoe A, whereby the shoe D is held securely on the shoe A.

The shoe A has shoulders S at the rear ends, against "which shoulders the ends of the flanges E rest to prevent the lower shoe from slipping back.

To lock the cam lever K in place, its prong L is snapped into the notch M in the end of the plate J. The shoe D can be fastened and unfastened easily and rapidly, does not in-' jure the horses hoofs, and is a safeguard against slipping. I

Having tnus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The detachable horseshoe D, provided with the flange E, the stationary lug H on one prong and the cam-lever K L on the other prong, the said lug and cam-lever being adapted to engage a permanently-secured shoe, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The herein-deseribed detachable horseshoe, consisting of the shoe D, provided with the upwardly-projecting flange E, the lug H, the plate J, having notch M, and the camlever K L, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the fixed shoe 

